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THOMAS-H) WIBLE,'1QF oUiNCY,, 1LL1NoIs.

er'z Patent Na. .rsssafized Mms 81, 1888.

' IMPBOVEMBNT ni GON-PLANTBR.

` ;Be n knows nm I, THOMAS H. wmm, Bf the city of Quinzy', in nie countyof Adams, and sms ofimnoie have in vented 'a new and useful machine fordropping andfplantin'g corn, which I call The'G'em Corn-'Dropper andPlanter;" and I'flo hereby declare that the followitigis'a full,clean-,end exact 'descni'ption'of the constructionisnd operation of theSsmrefeienee being had to thel accompanying (lrawings, making part ofthis specification, in'which- I I I F-ignre? 1`is a-fi'ont view, vFigura 2 a. side vi'evfi. I v w Figre 3 a' Vertical section-of fig.A 2,in the lino'afa'hd Figure 4 a too'ievt of thmmdsand leversusedtolcommnnic'ate m'otion-to the several parts. The machineishand-nlanten" constrneted, arranged, andv operated ashereinaft'er`descrihed, for the 'pni-peso' of depositinggrsinsof icorn'or other seed in sepsrate holes, at fixe'd distances, in each hill, with-ease .a and b are hifnrctedjyvs, cohnected near their lowerextreniitjes bj' means of platespp', in which the 'ijw bis pit'oted.:The points l andbl-b, w-hich`-enter the ground, are Vplated with; metalon their, ontsides, -snd are he'velledon.theirv interio'l'v surfaces, soas to fit together` when closed. They also have concavities to directthe conrse of. the seed. i

Two other nsir'slof'jnws, 'cdandiefi are placed, one on each side of a1),. and athight angles theret o, in such-amsnnerthst' their pioints,When closed, shall 'be in ,the same plane, and their. relative positionsthose of the angles-of a s qnare. vThe jsws o and e l:tre fixed,parallel to each other, to the edge of a, by means of the cross-hate 'inm'.. The jaws'a, c, and e',.and their a'ppurtenances,may'be'consideredrelatively to b, d, andas the-stationary .parts of themachine, and the latter as'the movable parts.

I w lHandlesl law are nttachedto the-'upperlendsof a and inanconvenientma-nner, but when arranged as shown in thedrawings,'conformto thenatnral position'ofthe-hands, nnrt enable them tooperate the machine wit'hout undne'stmin'npon the irrists. z

- A 'seedbox orv reser'voir, i, is'fiedtothe jaw a, having a.dropping-slide, 8, of the fnll' width of its'bottoin, passing'freelythrongh hor'izo ntul slots. This slide, in the present'instance, hasfourO conireying-holcs', o, of a. size' suitable to carry one grain ofoi'n or' 'other seed, and' is atta ched by a hoo'k' or hinged fasteningto the jawib. When b is scpara'ted froin to itsffullest extent,.theslide 8 is drawn out of the box i, bringing the holes inimcdiately overthe upper end ,of the "fomltubes t, 'whichz lead resoectively-to thelower portions of thejaws' ,a b, c d, and ej. The back of the boxs'isremovedin fig, 2, for thefpnrnose of showing four cnt-off slides, l,i .let into thethickness of the' jawi a, and' held "down'b'zlight'spiral Springs. The function of'theseslides is to orerent thepassage of more thanvone'g'rain iix veach hole, but-it` by accident twograins should get wedged into one hole, or'th co'rn shhuld get edgeways,or` be of extra sie, th'ey yield and let it pass, 'thns preventingjmming or injnry to the 'imtchinev 1 gusrdrg, is secured above the ^holeso,` to present waste, should any gmins pass aocitlentally beyond theholes- A stop-block, n, is-'fixed on'thelinside of a, to prevent thetops of a and b from :ipproaching too closely. The slide scan hesuhstituted by others with sets of'hol'es suitable for diiferentkinds'pf grain; The

movement of theinni bfrom or towards the stationary jan' a gii'esmotiont'oa system of crank=levers, u'and 21,-'and rrids 9:, vshown infig. 4 inboth positions, which canse'thc movah'lejaws'ol andf to assume,respectively, ;in relation tc the stationary'jaws, c nd e,' t`he samerelative position that b assumes .towards a;z and ht the same ltimejVthns,`by means of the moveme'nt'giv'en by the hand of the operator tothe jaw`5, cause the four pairsf of'points to open or closesiinultoneosly..

niongthe important odvantafges realizned in .this machine is,th'eplanting of each grain of'seed in 'a separate'hole, at a certainfixednlistance from the lo t'ljers' -in the ssme'hill', therehyprevehting the most advanced stolks'frons cronidingand impeding thedci'elopment of those in' the some hill which may germinate later thantheiothe'rsi I I `In operatiomtheplonter' is grasped in both'hnnds bythe handles h. a and b are seprated, a grain of jseeil drops -into' eachtube, and pnsscsilown to the lowenp'ortion of thejaws',v which,being-closed,`prevent'them from passing'through. 'It is'then thrnstvertically into the ground to a proper depth, the hands are brought

